2.-The manorial system.
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2. The manorial system -- 3. The Black Death, 1349 -- 4. The Statute of Labourers -- 5. The Lollard preachers -- 6. The Peasants' Revolt, 1381 -- 7. Piers, the Plowman, 1377 -- 8. The labourers' golden age -- 9. How the sheep turned out the men -- 10. The debasement of the currency -- 11. The destruction of the monasteries -- 12. The new aristocracy -- 13. The rise in the price of provisions -- 14. The labourers' rise under Captain Kett, 1549 -- 15. Bernard Gilpin's Sermon before Edward VI -- 16. The punishment of three days' idleness -- 17. Rise of the English Poor Law system -- 18. New occupations found for labour -- 19. Laws for the regulation of industry -- 20. The domestic system of manufacture -- 21. Poverty during the Commonwealth -- 22. Indirect taxation begins -- 23. Wholesale enclosure commences -- 24. The golden age of the English farmer -- 25. The abuse of the old Poor Law -- 26. The beginning of the factory system -- 27. How the new factories obtained hands -- 28. The introduction of steam power -- 29. Workmen's wages 130 years ago -- 30. Poor pay the piper for rich men's tune -- 31. Why boots, salt, soap and candles were dear -- 32. Weavers' wages go down as bread goes up -- 33. Laisser-faire theories adopted -- 34. The Derbyshire Insurrection, 1817 -- 35. Trades unions legalized -- 36. The six Dorset labourers, 1835 -- 37. The abolition of the Corn Laws.